I-THE INLAND SEA.

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PROFILE of Long Island Sound. Last summer the writer and two companions took a two-week trip around the Sound in a cruising sailboat. A journal of the trip follows. From a friend he chartered a year-old Medalist-class sloop named Merrywend with a 33 foot long Fiberglas hull. He decided to circumnavigate Long Island Sound counterclockwise. From Stamford, where Merrywand was berthed, he would sail westward about 20 statute miles along the coast of the mainland as far as the Bronx; then eastward a hundred miles along the shores of Long Island to Orient Point & across to Watch Hill; and finally westward along the Connecticut coast for 85 miles ending back at Stamford. They hoisted sail on Friday, August 9th, spent that night at a mooring in Greenwich Harbor, and sailed westward the next day to the west side of City Island. On Sunday, they made their way through swarms of assorted vessels to Oyster Bay, and anchored there for the night in Morris Cove, a sheltered harbor on the west side of Centre Island, which is a long peninsula protruding into the bay. The Sound is an inland sea, being almost entirely enclosed by land, and yet composed of the same salt water as the Atlantic Ocean.